'Graduation coaches' to help ease transition for Indigenous high school students

The public school board in Thunder Bay is launching a pilot project this summer aimed at helping Indigenous students.

The 2016 budget for Lakehead Public Schools includes funding for two "graduation coaches" — with one each at Hammarskjold and Sir Winston Churchill high schools.

Board superintendent of education, Sherri-Lynne Pharand, said the goal of the project is to help students, particularly from remote communities, during what can already be a difficult jump from grades eight to nine.

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